We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Tomorrow you will say Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible! It's not terrible. It's good.

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

There is no god higher than truth.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.